I feel like I aged five years in the last two. I spent the last two years at the Comparative Media Studies department and the Center for Civic Media at MIT, at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard, and generally soaking in the congregation of public interest technologists and community media makers in Cambridge and…
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What I wish I had known before applying for grad school
A few months ago, I wrote this post describing the path that made me apply for the Master’s program in which I’m studying now. At the end, I mentioned that the most important lesson I learned from the process is that I was not accepted because of my experience; I was accepted for being a…
On growing up, change(s) and gratitude
tl;dr: In autumn 2016, I am relocating from Mexico City to Boston for two years. I will be studying at my dream program, Comparative Media Studies at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology, and RAing at the Center for Civic Media. This long post talks about the story behind this and my takeaways from it. I…
The things I ask myself everyday
I have spent a good chunk of the last few months pondering about my essence. Or, really, to leave philosophical lingo aside: I have been thinking about what makes me the person I am. These days, I am defined primarily by what I do and the people I am with – something I will never take…
Ten years later
If you could have a conversation with the person you were ten years ago, what would you tell her? This question has been chasing me since December 2014, when a dear teacher invited me to give a talk on activism and technology –the field I work in today– to students in the school where I…